A new photobook, In Umbra Lucis by Roland Reinstadler, offers a rare inside look at the Lanegg monastery in Lana, South Tyrol, Italy, home to a community of the Teutonic Order. Reinstadler was granted access by the order's prior and spent time photographing the nuns and priests living within its cloistered walls, capturing daily rituals, communal meals and religious ceremonies rarely seen by outsiders. The project is notable for the intimacy of its access to a closed religious community and for its exploration of faith and tradition through photography.

The images depict scenes including priests sharing a traditional South Tyrolean afternoon snack after a liturgical ceremony, pilgrims leaving a mountain church following a Monday pilgrimage held each May, and 78-year-old Sister Josefa, one of the convent's last 16 sisters, tending plants in the garden. Other photographs show 84-year-old Prior Arnold reading the Bible before lunch and a young candidate undergoing a solemn initiation ritual into the order. Reinstadler describes the book as both a study of faith and the "more complex side of the church", as well as a personal project reflecting on his own past. In Umbra Lucis is available to pre-order from publisher GOST.